Heart attacks, vehicle accidents leading cause of firefighter deaths in 2007
In a recently issued study entitled On-Duty Firefighter Fatalities in the United States in 2007 (3.0 mb PDF), the United States Fire Administration (USFA) reported that there were 115 on-duty...
View ArticleHealth Wonk Review’s Recess Edition and news from the blogosphere
Congress may be on vacation but the dedicated health policy bloggers are certainly on the case so you should face no shortage of wonkery. Jaan Sidorov has posted the August Recess Edition of Health...
View ArticleTen Years After: the Worcester Cold Storage Fire
Most Massachusetts residents will recall how their heart sank 10 years ago upon hearing TV and radio reports of the on-the-job deaths of six firefighters in the Worcester Cold Storage fire. While...
View ArticleHealth Wonk Review and other workers comp news notes
Joe Paduda is the man of the moment. His Managed Care Matters blog is worth a regular perusal for the informed commentary he offers about the medical side of workers comp. Today, there’s twice as much...
View ArticleCavalcade of Risk & workers comp news briefs
It’s Cavalcade of Risk week and issue #122 is hosted by our friend David Williams at Health Business Blog – check it out! Industry pulse – Good news. Robert Hartwig of the Insurance Information...
View ArticleAnnals of Fraud: Buffed, Ripped, Indicted
When we last left bodybuilding firefighter Felix Arroyo, his application for disability retirement ($65K per year, tax free) had been rejected and he had been offered back his (relatively light duty)...
View ArticleFirefighter down: Another heartbreaking fatality in Worcester
Ironically, when we first learned about potential trouble with a three-decker fire in Worcester last week, we were in the process of gathering links about a recent NFPA report showing that firefighter...
View ArticleNews Roundup: Holiday Health Wonkery, Claims Webinar, Firefighter Hazards & more
Holiday Health Wonkery – Just a spoonful of latkes makes the medicine go down? Hank Stern hosts a Chanukah-themed Festival of Lights edition of Health Wonk Review at InsureBlog – it’s fun, interesting,...
View ArticleFirefighter safety: tactics over traditions to reduce fatalities
Preliminary reports for 2012 show that there were 82 firefighter fatalities, the fourth consecutive year in which fatalities were 91 or under, in contrast with the decade prior when fatalities were all...
View ArticleCalifornia fires: Response and recovery health hazards
In the wake of the devastating California fires, the massive debris field – formerly neighborhoods, homes and businesses – is now a toxic environmental brew that poses risks to cleanup and recovery...
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